[ntnsndr]

Funny that he didn't use the .md extension. Maybe because he started doing it before he expected his markup would merit its own filetype?

[dchest]

"Too late now, I suppose, but the only file extension I would endorse is “.markdown” [...]

(I personally use “.text” for my own files, and have BBEdit set to use Markdown syntax coloring for that extension, which is why I never saw a need to endorse an official extension.)"

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2014/01/08/markdown-extens...

[leejoramo]

Thanks for finding this post. I did a quick search for it and came up empty.

[twoodfin]

More likely because the whole point of Markdown was to be embedded in text, not a freestanding format for an entire document.

[leejoramo]

This is exactly why.

It is my assumption that Gruber chose ‘.text’ over ‘.txt’ for several reasons. To give it a little difference when searching for files. To be more legible to non-computer people. And finally, while Classic MacOS did not use file extensions, the Resource Fork type code for text files was ‘TEXT’